Antimetabole(an-tee-meh-TA-boe-lee): Figure of emphasis in which the words in
one phrase or clause are replicated, exactly or closely, in reverse
grammatical order in the next phrase or clause; an inverted
order of repeated words in adjacent phrases or clauses (A-B, B-A).

Ex #1: In the U.S.,
all crimes are illegalities but not all illegalities
are crimes." To wit: It is not a federal crime for an
immigrant to be in the U.S. illegally. - M.E.

Ex #2: "The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence."
-- Carl Sagan

Ex #3: "Therefore the
treasures of the Gospel are nets with which they formerly were wont to
fish for men of riches. The treasures of the
indulgences are nets with which they now fish for the riches of
men." --
Luther, Ninety-Five Theses

Ex #4: Not all readers
become leaders. But all leaders must be readers--
Harry S. Truman, Post-Presidential Papers

Ex #9: "The richer they get, the
tighter they become; and the tighter they become, the
richer they get." --
Anonymous

Ex #10:"Man is not a creature
of circumstances. Circumstances are the
creatures of men." -- Benjamin Disraeli

Ex #11:"There is considerable irony in the
Federal Communications Commission classifying the Internet as an
information service and not as a communications service insofar as while
that may have been a gambit to relieve ISPs of telephone-era regulation,
the value of the Internet is ever more the bits it
carries, not the carriage of thosebits." -- Dan Geer, USA
Black Hat 2014 Keynote

Ex #12: "Intellectuals must never
be given power because they want people to get down on their knees and
learn to love what they really hate and hate what
they really love." -- Eric Hoffer

Ex #13:"When you look into an abyss,
the abyss also looks into you."
-- Frederick Nietzsche

Ex #14: "This sad Republican fate
is deserved...This is what Republicans get for devaluing the calling of
public service. When you have contempt for politics,
you often get a politics worthy of contempt."
-- Michael Gerson

Ex #15: "The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously,
but not literally" [on presidential candidate Donald
Trump]. -- Salena Zito

"Any psychiatrist will tell you, if you
suppress memories they come back with fury. You must face them. Even if
you cannot articulate them, we must face them. And memories are many and
varied: memories of those who died with weapons in their hands; and
those who died with prayers on their lips. And let no one say that some
were heroes and others martyrs. In those times the heroes were
martyrs and the martyrs were heroes. It was heroic
for a friend to give his piece of bread to his friend. It was heroic to
go around on Shabbat and simply say to his or her friends: 'It's
Shabbat, today.' It was heroic to have faith; It was heroic to be
human."

"After contemplation, I conclude that this
award, which I receive on behalf of [the civil rights] movement, is a
profound recognition that nonviolence is the answer to the crucial
political and moral questions of our time -- the need for man to
overcome oppression and violence without resorting to violence and oppression."

"As we've heard this morning, development, security, and human
rights must go hand in hand. There can be nosecurity
without development and no development
without security; and neither can be sustained in the longer
term without it being rooted in the rule of law and respect for human
rights."

-- Kofi Annan, Final Address to the
United Nations General Assembly

"What I am claiming here is not that
television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the
natural format for the representation of all experience. Our television
set keeps us in constant communion with the world, but it does so with a
face whose smiling countenance is unalterable. The problem is not that
television presents us with
entertaining subject matter,
but that all subject matter is presented as
entertaining -- which is another issue altogether. To say it
still another way: Entertainment is the supra-ideology of all discourse
on television. No matter what is depicted, or from what point of view,
the overarching presumption is that it is there for our amusement and
pleasure."

"We were not made great as a country by
indulging in or even exalting our worst impulses, turning against
ourselves, glorifying in the things that divide us, and calling fake
things true and true things fake. And we did not become the
beacon of freedom in the darkest corners of the world by flouting our
institutions and failing to understand just how hard-won and vulnerable
they are."

"The general fact is simple: Poetry is sane because it
floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite
sea, and so make it finite. To accept everything is an exercise, to
understand everything a strain. The poet only desires exaltation and
expansion, a world to stretch himself in. The poet only asks to get his
head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the
heavens
into his head. And it is his head that splits."

"It is time for us to say here in Beijing, and for the world to
hear, that it is no longer acceptable to discuss women’s rights as separate from
human rights. If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference,
let it be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights once and for all."

"All this means that the people of any country
have the right, and should have the power by constitutional action, by
free unfettered elections, with secret ballot, to choose or change the
character or form of government under which they dwell; that freedom of
speech and thought should reign; that courts of justice, independent of
the executive, unbiased by any party, should administer laws which have
received the broad assent of large majorities or are consecrated by time
and custom. Here are the title deeds of freedom which should lie in
every cottage home. Here is the message of the British and American
peoples to mankind: Let us preach what we practice -- let
us practice what we preach."

"1999 and the illusion
continues. In the name of freedom, many have used art as a means to
destroy the human mind. As an excuse to continue we hear, "Art
reflects society." In the name of recreation these people, in
fact, are re-creating themselves in their own images; society
thenreflects art."

"Tonight,
we are a country awakened to danger and called to defend freedom. Our
grief has turned to anger; and anger to resolution. Whether we
bring
our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done."

"The world faces a very different Russia
than it did in 1991. Like all countries, Russiaalso
faces a very different world." It's defining feature is globalization:
the tearing down of boundaries between people, nations, and cultures --
so that what happens anywhere can have an impact everywhere.

"I have a message for our youth. I challenge them to
put hope in their brains and not dope in their veins. I told them that
like Jesus, I, too, was born in the slum. But just because you're
born in the slum does not mean the slum
is born in you, and you can rise above it if your mind is
made up."

"I do not believe that any of us would exchange
places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the
faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our
country and all who serve it. And the glow from that fire can truly
light the world. And so, my fellow
Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask
what
you can do for your country."

"For a
nuclear disaster, spread by winds and water and fear, could well engulf
the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the
uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war -- or war will put an end to mankind.

"In an age when both sides have come to
possess enough nuclear power to destroy the human race several times
over, the world of communism and the world of free choice have been
caught up in a vicious circle of conflicting ideology and interest. Each increase of tension has produced an increase of arms; each increase of arms has produced an increase of tension."

"It's been my privilege to go to scores
of universities and colleges. And I have seen professors; I've seen
students; I've seen some that I might classify as an intellectual come
-- but they have to come as "children." Jesus said that. We sayto
our children 'Be like grownups.' But Jesus said to us grownups, 'Be
like children.' Come as a little child, not as a Doctor of
Philosophy, not as a Doctor of Law. But come as a simple human being --
to the Cross. And your life can be changed."

"There are some who may feel that religion is
not a matter to be seriously considered in the context of the weighty
threats that face us. If so, they're at odds with the nation's Founders,
for they, when our nation faced its greatest peril, sought the blessings
of the Creator. And further, they discovered the essential connection
between the survival of a free land and the protection of
religious freedom. In John
Adams' words: 'We have no government armed with power capable of
contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.' 'Our
Constitution,' he said, was made for a moral and religious people.' Freedom requires religion just as religion requires
freedom.

"And I
think what we have really to do in Israel is to change the electoral
system, and to enable people who are secular and religious to coexist.
And if the rabbis want to decide who is a Jew, the
Jews have the right to decide who is a rabbi. And that's the way
life should go."

-- Shimon Peres,
Q&A session response following a 1999 address at the University of Texas
at Tyler

"Here's how I look at
the choice Americans face in this election. In politics,
there are some candidates who use change to promote their
careers.
And then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers
to promote change."